currently craving: brownies, caramel/coffee custard
coffee or tea: both
some mutuals i’d like to know: @theblackberryhimself @fadetogetherr @dear-space-cadet @maybeiamamist4ke @vouwlgs @valiumsdiazepam (sorry if theres anyone i forgot, still feel free to rb)
fav colour: ummm i really like red a lot (ik its surprisingly not green given my blog theme)
last song: the gondola experience (kingsman II ost)
currently reading: also fanfics i fear, im too busy to read a book :( but the last one open on my phone was hamlet and i was recently skimming IHNMAIMS on my computer so ?
currently watching: stranger things !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! prepping for s5
currently craving: nothing tbh i just ate a bit ago and im not hungry
coffee or tea: coffee but i dont like either much unless its a sweet coffee or frappuccino or smth. sorry coffee lovers
no pressure tags: @badtameezdilll @adrian-the-angel @billlyramone @crucifornicate + open tags
fav color: Black, except black is a shade so teal is technically my fav.
last song: This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads
currently reading: Dracula
currently watching: FBI Files/The New Detectives on Youtube
currently craving: casual irl intimacy with my friends. I just wanna brush my shoulder up against yours like a happy cat. To lay my head on your shoulder while I watch you draw or write or study or just browse pinterest. To help you with your chores, dishes are a lot more fun when there's two people making each other laugh.
coffee or tea: BOTH get light ice iced dirty vanilla chai-ed!!! (I have not had one of those in SO long but. I want one.) The real answer, though, is none of the above, it's a Khaotic (eu version) Monster energy drink.
tagging (no pressure EVER): @music-for-them-asses @miercoles-wednesday @bmoviebabylon @godgivenwarning @the-chemical-pilot @somewhatbrutal
now i never know if i click the reveal mature content button in public if it’s going to be perfectly normal pictures of trent reznor or if it’s gonna be titties
I was quite scared of my birthday coming up, but with so many precious birthday wishes I couldn't be more grateful. I appreciate that I got to meet so many nice and wonderful people this year, you people made this year much better than how it was initially going.
I've learnt a lot from all of you, I'm glad I got to live another full year and now that I think about it, I'm quite happy this year, which is a stark contrast to how I felt at the start of it.
do ya know what i find fascinatin’? that everyone i saw who took ur quiz got a different result. we’re a diverse bunch of ppl
I feel very grateful that people seem to be not only getting different results, but liking them. I'm not proud of how I wrote some results, I tried to keep some neutralities so in case someone got a non accurate result, they'd see a bit or two that they would relate to.🏃
What did help is that I tried to make personalities based on the people I commonly encounter in this community, and some of my friends I found here. Everyone is different!
I'm going to post some answers and my thoughts, I don't want people to think it's going nowhere, I really appreciate the nice words and even my beloved emojis 👽💗
I don't know how many sub-eras I could even make for the fragile, I'm not as well versed in it, but maybe I could try someday 😭
I really love these answers, there were many with aliens. I do love CDs though so these get a win 👽
I wasn't entirely sure if I should post this one, I don't know/remember who this was, so it's anonymous
But I feel like a lot of people in the nin community find that they relate to a lyric or a song in a way that opens their wounds because of how relatable it is, but the way that makes you feel less alone. At least that's the way I feel, so I'm sorry if I'm projecting 🥲 but I think that's what binds us all in this community, collective loneliness, like I mentioned in the "long hair Trent" one.
I feel like I should thank you all again, the nin community has been the best thing that ever happened in my life, and I appreciate you people taking the time of your life to take a silly quiz I made and possibly even read this 🥹
I'm sorry for rambling, usually when I write something that I post for the public viewing I take a day or two to rethink my wording, this time I just woke up and I'm using my full brainpower 👽
OK, I'm making my way through the personality test/“NIN survey” requests and asks, but I'm going to let this one jump the line. It was made by my dear friend suvirintojas, otherwise known on TikTok as surviving tortillas, because no one can remember or pronounce the username or knows what it means. (i do, but i asked.)
here we go. what PHM era Trent am I within the larger PHM Trent timeline?
i thought i'd screenshot a few of the questions and my answers because i thought it was a cute and thoughtful quiz.
i'm not an artist, per se, but i consider myself a writer, and when i write, i want to do all these things, so it was hard to pick one. sometimes i hope they relate, often i don't. i'd like to make people think, but if i could only do one thing, i guess it would be "make them feel something."
these are probably my two favorite lyrics on the album, and the full list had several lyrics that were meaningful to me. interestingly, these were the only two songs i initially liked off phm. that changed over time, obviously. the first lyric i think has an interesting duality. i don't know if it's just in my mind or if it's on purpose, but to me it is both religious and sexual, which is probably why it's such an important song for me, despite also just kicking ass. i'd like to write about it one day, when i have more time. but i also think it's very interesting as a religious lyric, because i don't like the idea of a God that seems gleeful about or eager to give anyone what they 'deserve,' or making anyone feel they should bow down to something. we're all just human and i don't think anyone deserves bad things, nor do i think we should be compelled to serve anything, especially if we were just kind of... brought here against our will, if we are to understand how God works according to most religious texts, at least in the Abrahamic tradition. this lyric also isn't necessarily inherently sinister, i guess, but i hear it that way and i read it like that. perhaps that says something about me, that i assume it means punishment and i assume it comes from a place of ill-will.
but ultimately, the song that speaks to me most is Terrible Lie. probably for the same reasons.
hahaha. my real order is PHM >>> TDS >>> with teeth >>> broken >>> pib >>> the fragile, if i had to put them in order. fragile used to be my favorite, but i've just lost interest in it sonically, but now and then i return to it. broken at one time was also my obsession, and TDS was probably the first album i really connected with, and may even ultimately be my favorite, lyrically and sonically. but PHM is just so special to me for many reasons that i can't go into now, because we'd be here forever. but i will say that it's when i'm attracted to trent the most, for sure, but i'm just very sentimental about something being nascent and new. i guess that's why i'm always very nostalgic for childhood and purity and innocence, even if, when i think back at it, my childhood wasn't bad, but it wasn't good, and i don't know how my mind can be simultaneously so pure and impure.
i was just talking to someone last night about some of his early PHM photos. even before he was anyone and before there were any reviews or acclaim, he looks so confident. i said his gaze makes me feel like he thought "i deserve to have my picture taken." like he knew what he had to offer was special, and he was just waiting for the world to recognize it, too. i relate to that, and think it's just generally very sweet and ultimately, pure.
i don't know what this means and i'm not going to look it up. but i almost never want to be the doer, i like the thing to be done, though we are probably thinking of different things, because you are pure and sweet, and that's something i love about you.
this is difficult, but your ability to articulate these categories is another reason i love you. like i said earlier, i want to accomplish all these things. but ultimately, the first option -- beauty / appreciation / memory. unfortunately, sometimes people say i've made them sad or concerned. i don't mind those comments, but that wasn't necessarily my intention. all i can do is write and create things from a place of honesty and truth. but memory is also very important to me. it's also a whole academic discipline -- Memory Studies -- and usually has to do with war and change and loss--cultural and societal shifts, like the fall of the Soviet Union, for example. that's where i first encountered it.
there's of course 'memory studies' in terms of like, actual neuroscience, but in the humanities it's quite different. there's even a journal called Memory Studies, and I'll let the description complete my answer: "covers the social, cultural ... shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember and forget." sometimes this is about control and oppression, like when a colonizer forces a language upon the colonized, for example. which is always why i think it's quite funny when other Latinos tease me or worse for not speaking Spanish that well. like, sure, it helps you connect with your heritage and it's memory, but why not some indigenous language? do you know an indigenous language? no? then shut up. one of my formative memories is being outside of church on a sunday and two older ladies asking me something in spanish, and when i couldn't respond in spanish, even though i understood, they said "your mother should be ashamed. you should be ashamed." i'll never forget it. i was like, 12.
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one of my favorite authors, Vladimir Nabokov wrote an autobiography called Speak, Memory. it's original title, though, was Conclusive Evidence. as in, conclusive evidence that he was here and alive. i guess this is why i like to remember, and why i write, and why i post things i care about -- because i'm scared to forget, and because i want there to be some kind of record that i was here and that i was alive, and this is what mattered to me and what my life looked like. and i guess the same thing for NIN and trent. i hope someday it'll be more than just some random blog on the internet, but just in case it's not, here's a my little record of existence.
i mean it! i love you very much and i don't say that lightly. there are only a few people in this world i have ever called "my love," and you are the third.
i had a boyfriend in college who had an ouroboro tattoed on his neck. i told you about him the other day. he was the only blond i ever was attracted to, or one of the very few. he had eyes like blue ice, and he was very beautiful. but i regret i no longer have pictures of him, and when i look him up just to refresh my memory, i can't find him, because he shares a name with a professional baseball player who just so happens to play in his hometown, and the name is otherwise kind of generic. it made me sad to think that even if i wanted to, i couldn't find him online and i'd never see his face again. anyway, enough about that. i also want to hug every person in the world and do something that matters, and i also think about the themes of loss of self worth in the downward spiral. but ultimately i chose:
this one :3
this is my very favorite photo, "of trent or anything," as i once told you, and you've cropped it so beautifully. we once had a whole convo about this shirt and it has to do with what i said earlier. it's a teeny tiny little logo -- a logo that never changed despite how pretty much literally everything else changed -- and reveals, at least in my mind, how much conviction he had in himself and Nine Inch Nails, even before it meant anything to anyone but him.
another hard one. they are wonderful in their own ways. i think down in it is criminally underrepresented on tiktok. it's so technicolor and fun. and sin is obviously so beautiful, but i understand why it's not really prominent on tiktok, lol. but if i had to chose, HLAH. i love all the colors and the energy. i think it's the most angry, and i am very angry, even if i am, i think, ultimately pretty nice.
team shaved sides. i love the shaved sides. i think they were so lovely and i don't really know why. what's lovely about hair arbitrarily being shaved to the scalp in some random pattern? idk. i just like it. i suppose there doesn't have to be a reason.
oh no! i seem to have screenshot this at "go back to making videos," but i meant "straight fire." but jokes aside, your videos are so beautiful and moving, and they are my favorite on tiktok. i wish you'd post them here, and maybe one day you will, as you've said. one of them made me weep, and i remember the first one i ever saw. it was love at first sight! not with just the video, but with you -- it revealed something about you, and i knew i wanted to know more about who you were. the "algorithm," as i write about frequently, is often cruel and arbitrary and stupid, but it led me to you, and for that i am thankful.
these days i need a lot of distractions. i don't like being "at rest," mentally. i told someone once about a children's game i played called "the floor is lava." you have to jump from thing to thing on the floor and not touch the actual ground, or else you'll sink in the lava. it's kind of like that.
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i feel like you wrote this hoping i'd see it. maybe not. but i'm going to pretend you did.
now i want to know how you described the other PHM Trents! especially Lolla -- how did you characterize him, and what photo did you choose? i'd love to know :)
if you want to take the quiz, you can find it here.
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This is a remake of my old compilation posts on Trent Reznor's hairstyles starting with his synth-pop career in the 1980s and ending with the Broken era. During the cleanup of my blog, almost all the posts were accidentally deleted. Therefore, I decided to make the one big post instead of four small posts. Thanks to those who made reposts, because thanks to you I found the contents of my old posts. Please note that there are hyperlinks to the videos, posts and webpages in the text if you want to see the additional material.
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1982-1988
Let's discover all his hairstyles of his synth-pop/pre-NIN era (1982 - 1988). That was an amazing era that impresses with its variety of hairstyles and colors. I use not only photos from gigs but also basically all photos that show the details of all periods well. Let's go!
In 1982 a high school student Trent became a member of the band Option 30. At that time his haircut was a some kind of a cute short mullet with his natural hair color:
This photo was probably taken during Trent’s college years. I believe he had natural hair color that time but the black and white scale doesn’t allow me to identify this:
The quality of the photo below is poor but he probably dyed his hair for the first time. Seems like bright red:
After leaving Option 30 in 1984 Trent joined his next band, The Urge. There he had a bright red short haircut with obviously a lot of hairspray on his head:
The Innocent. Still a lot of hairspray:
The Exotic Birds (say hi to Chris Vrenna). In 1986, Trent had a lot more experiments with his appearance. There were haircuts of different lengths and colors like blonde, brown...
And, I believe, during this period he dyed his hair his favorite signature black for the first time:
Slam Bamboo and The Right Track studio times. In 1987 he had a shorter black haircaut but later he started growing his hair out:
The last band Trent was involved in before founding Nine Inch Nails was Lucky Pierre in 1988. Back then, he was closest to his classic long black hair:
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1988-1991
And now we're looking forward Pretty Hate Machine era! It was a few crazy years for Trent's hair actually.
At the time of the very first Nine Inch Nails gigs in autumn of 1988 (as support for Skinny Puppy's VIVsectVI tour) Trent had long black shoulder-length ragged haircut with angled bangs and side parting:
In the early 1989 his haircut became longer, more ragged and began to resemble a wolf cut with long bangs:
By the fall of 1989, he shaved off his sides and hairline. Bangs became shorter later in this period. You can see that haircut in Down In It music video, Dance Party U.S.A. clip and the fragment of the MTV's 120 Minutes. Presumably, he wore this haircut until the beginning of 1990 (according to this clip dated March 1990). This haircut was in Pretty Hate Machine promotional tour:
From the spring (?) of 1990 and until August he wore long black dreadlocks. His sides and hairline were still shaved. You can also see his hairstyle in these clips: the 1990 live, Progressive Visions demo reel and this interview.
This hairstyle was in the period of the The Jesus and Mary Chain's Automatic Tour, Peter Murphy's Deep Tour and PHM Hate Tour:
And Revolting Cocks' Beers Steers & Queers tour, of course:
RIP dreads and hello buzzcut Trent! He also wore a bandana or just a hat, I don't know. Maybe because he didn't like his buzzcut.
Note: maybe you know that was a story by Al Jourgensen and he cut Trent's hair during Get Down Make Love recording session. Well, user TheBand from ETS has made his own investigation and have come to a conclusion that Al just made up this anecdote.
Between touring with Revolting Cocks and the Sin tour (started in December of 1990) Trent apparently grew out some hair to make new dreadlocks which were shorter that they were before. His hair color was natural at that time and sides were shaved. You can also see his short dreads in Sin music video.
There were also dreads with grown sides:
I can be mistaken but it seems that in February of 1991 he cut his hair again so there were no dreads anymore. You can see it in this interview and this soundcheck clip.
He toured with Pigface in April of 1991. That time he grew out his hair, which he combed back, and sideburns. I suppose his sides were short:
The concerts of the first Lollapalooza Festival lasted from July to August 1991. There were also European concerts, which ended in September of the same year. All this time Trent wore his signature Lolla hairstyle: the hair on the side and back was short, and on top they were overgrown, and small braids were attached to them (not dreadlocks as many people think). I think these braids were synthetic. If you look closely, you can see his regrown natural hair under braids:
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1991-1993
So, the PHM era finally finished and the Broken era began. It partially overlapped with PHM because some of the songs from the then-upcoming EP were performed in the last months of the PHM era.
Trent removed his braids and began to grow his hair out. At first he wore a hairstyle similar to the one he had during Pigface gigs. I have a post with these photos by Tom Sheehan.
He also started wearing his facial hair for the first time in the form of a soul patch. Here is Trent for Spin Magazine, March 1992:
In the end, his haircut was almost similar to what would find its final form in the TDS era. He preferred not only a straight but also a side parting. The haircut looked a little ragged:
That's it! And the identified photos as the bonus material:
@miercoles-wednesday once said to me that it was taken in September 1991. Unfortunately, the bandana on his head hides Trent’s haircut at the time:
Those photos were projected during NIN’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, I suppose. It could be April or the late autumn of 1991:
And the last one. This photo caused me the most questions. This may be the period between RevCo and Sin Tour or the period before or after Lollapalooza:
Big kudos to @miercoles-wednesday, @purr-ified and @reznorgasmm for photos they posted there before!
If you have any additional information about Trent's hairstyles or clarification on unidentified photos, write about it in the comments! I hope you enjoyed my research! Cheers!
My favorite scenes from the Closer music video are the moments where he’s suspended in the air, but dangling all limp. It looks like he’s either surrendering to something or giving up, which to me are not the same things, even if I can’t explain the difference.
I told a friend a while ago that I wanted to gif that moment or two in the video because it speaks to me for some reason. But it’s such a brief moment, the cuts are so fast, it’s tedious to capture.
Then I remembered this part of the behind the scenes footage, and as I watched it, I was struck by the fact that if it weren’t for the camera panning, it would totally pass for a loop or gif.
I’ve been thinking a lot about gifs. The ones I’ve seen and the ones I’ve made myself.
It takes some precision and dedication for no obvious reward or purpose beyond remembering and replaying a moment/memory in a hypnotic, eternal loop.
You have to choose: “this is the precise moment I want to immortalize.” For whatever reason. (That’s why I try not to share gifs I haven’t made myself without attribution, because I know it can be a pain in the ass.)
But sometimes, the eternal loop is not a moment you want to live in forever, or replay again and again. You want out of the loop. But in this position, it looks like he’s succumbing to the inevitability of something, like he’s unable to change it, so he just hangs there, unsure of an alternative.
There’s more I want to say: about how in this section of the BTS, everyone around him is seemingly enjoying themselves, while he is uncomfortable and spinning so long he reportedly puked. And how he gets laid on a gurney and poked and prodded so much, he looks like a patient in a hospital.
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